Web Hosting
We offer our website clients a special fully managed web hosting service. This provides major advantages compared with a standard shared hosting account. Our hosting includes all updates and off-site backups, so you don't have to worry about the technical stuff.
Hosting that's truly managed
A single out of date plugin, or weak password can lead to an entire server being hacked, blacklisted. This means your site could go down or slow to a crawl. People sometimes lose all their data, their backups and even control of their domain name without warning! You need something better than that.
- We host your site on a fast VPS (virtual private server). This is located in a data centre with redundant power and network connections.
- All software inside the VPS is managed by Beeches IT. We keep everything as up to date as possible, for maximum stability and security.
- Your files and database contents are automatically backed up daily and stored both on-site and off-site. If there's a disaster, a recent version of your site can typically be restored to a new web server by any competent web technician within hours.
- We monitor your server continuously to get early warning of problems. These include overloading, hacking or DoS (denial of service) attack. We've even survived a tweet from Stephen Fry and an attack from 300,000 different IP addresses!
- There are no arbitrary limits on server or network resources. The size of the VPS can be increased ,to cope with thousands of simultaneous visitors. However we reserve the right to negotiate a higher fee for heavily used sites.
- We can take care of all your email addresses as well. We'll ensure messages are delivered without delay and can be viewed or searched on any device. So effectively spam filtered and with the correct "from" address set (as well as SPF, DKIM and DMARC records).
Prices
Basic site - from £100/year
A basic "shop front", blog or community site. This might include information about products, facilities or services offered, future meetings or events, opening hours, location and contact information. You may have a newsletter, a photo or video gallery, social media integration, testimonials and a PayPal "buy now" or "donate" button. It probably would have fewer than 100 pages and require updating (by Beeches IT) no more than once per week.
Advanced site - from £200/year
A commercial site might have an online shop or booking system and payment processing. It could include a forum open to public comments or reviews, a user registration system. It would probably require secure https connections and may have more than one content management system. This would require more frequent monitoring by us to deal with spam, failed orders or customer problems in a timely fashion.